Category: Minister for Sport – Kevin Newman

• The ‘nitty gritty’ years from Kevin Newman to Bob Ellicott: Australia Sport Policy 1975-1980

  History of Australian Sport Policy: Part Five By Greg Hartung   AO The harbinger of the eventual demise of the Whitlam Labor government was the Tasmanian BAS by-election in June 1975.  The seat was won with a spectacular swing of 17 percent to Kevin Newman for the Liberal Party. Though by elections rarely favor the incumbent…

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  September 20, 2021

  Author – Greg Hartung, Confederation of Australian Sport, Government Policy, History, History of Australian Sport Policy Series, Minister – Bob Ellicott, Minister for Sport – Kevin Newman, Minister for Sport – Ray Groom, Politics